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It had been 12 years since Mulholland's crews
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Flood in the Desert

It had been 12 yearssince Mulholland's crews ran the southern end ofthe aqueduct through...

It had been 12 years
since Mulholland's crews ran the southern end of
the aqueduct through here, and three years since they finished building
a generating station called Powerhouse 2 about a mile downstream
from the new dam

Full Transcript

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It had been 12 years since Mulholland's crews
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ran the southern end of the aqueduct through here,
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and three years
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since they finished building a generating station
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called Powerhouse 2
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about a mile downstream from the new dam.
Duration
18 seconds
Views
41
Timestamp in Movie
00:17:21
Uploaded
Mar 28, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, history

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Movie Summary

Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the 2nd deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured the growth of Los Angeles by bringing water to the city via ...
The Powerhouse 2 workers and their families - Flood in the Desert 00:10
The Powerhouse 2 workers and their families
Now their quiet little community - Flood in the Desert 00:09
Now their quiet little community
But just as the project was gearing up, - Flood in the Desert 00:08
But just as the project was gearing up,
On the 21st of May 1924, - Flood in the Desert 00:11
On the 21st of May 1924,
The damage was repaired within a few days, - Flood in the Desert 00:12
The damage was repaired within a few days,
The aqueduct was a disaster for Owens Valley. - Flood in the Desert 00:07
The aqueduct was a disaster for Owens Valley.
The people who lived there lost almost all of their water. - Flood in the Desert 00:07
The people who lived there lost almost all of their water.
It became such a desolate place. - Flood in the Desert 00:08
It became such a desolate place.
It was a complete undoing - Flood in the Desert 00:09
It was a complete undoing
To the city and to Mulholland, this is terrorism. - Flood in the Desert 00:07
To the city and to Mulholland, this is terrorism.
You are destroying the water supply - Flood in the Desert 00:08
You are destroying the water supply
Six months after the first attack, - Flood in the Desert 00:15
Six months after the first attack,
They wouldn't restore the aqueduct flow, they said, - Flood in the Desert 00:12
They wouldn't restore the aqueduct flow, they said,
The siege lasted four days, - Flood in the Desert 00:09
The siege lasted four days,
To Mulholland's annoyance, - Flood in the Desert 00:13
To Mulholland's annoyance,
There are multiple layers of irony here. - Flood in the Desert 00:06
There are multiple layers of irony here.
When the settlers of the Owens Valley - Flood in the Desert 00:17
When the settlers of the Owens Valley
Before contact, - Flood in the Desert 00:11
Before contact,
Although most preferred a nomadic lifestyle, - Flood in the Desert 00:14
Although most preferred a nomadic lifestyle,
The Paiutes there, they were building irrigation canals - Flood in the Desert 00:15
The Paiutes there, they were building irrigation canals